If I'd known white people were going to buy my last album, I never would have recorded it.

So next time you feel like your world is about to end, I hope you studied because He's testing your faith again.

It's been my dream since I was a child to somehow unite people of the world through love and music.

The world don't need any more songs... As a matter of fact, if nobody wrote any songs from this day on, the world ain't gonna suffer for it... There's enough songs for people to listen to, if they want to listen to songs. For every man, woman and child on earth, they could be sent, probably, each of them, a hundred songs, and never be repeated... Unless someone's gonna come along with a pure heart and has something to say. That's a different story.

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.

I leave the genre labeling to other people. I really do. If I were to think too hard about it, that would stifle you creatively. If you think too hard about who other people want you to be as an artist, it stops you from being who you want to be as an artist.